willmarch

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by willmarch 4mo ago
You just can’t stop.
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by willmarch 4mo ago
And you just keep going… unbelievable.
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by willmarch 4mo ago
You really can’t stop with the insults and name calling. Can you blame a person for not wanting to engage with your abusive style of “conversation”?
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by willmarch 4mo ago
I thought you were talking about economic efficiency, not maximizing enjoyment. You can do anything you want with your time if you're not worried about economics, but that sort of contradicts your original statement.
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by willmarch 4mo ago
How much time does that investment free up for you to work in other areas with more impact than simply pressing keys and entering code by hand?
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by willmarch 4mo ago
Using a metaphor to illustrate a point is neither negative nor positive, what matters is if it is helpful in communicating. The often quoted: "Infinite growth is the mentality of a cancer cell" is fairly accurate for describing hu
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by willmarch 4mo ago
You might not like it, but by choosing not to reproduce they ARE having an actual impact on the world (as this debate about their actions demonstrates). Maybe we, as a species, would have better long term outcomes if we reflected more befor
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by willmarch 4mo ago
That’s assuming no disease, mental illness, unforeseen events, injuries, forced poverty, unexpected deaths, etc. A great deal of family dynamics is outside of a person’s full control.
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by willmarch 4mo ago
The robots will maintain themselves. AI will be dedicated to new tech.
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by willmarch 4mo ago
Not having kids is choosing to be the change they want to see in the world, no?
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by willmarch 4mo ago
You should read entire books
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by willmarch 4mo ago
Humans also produce errors but are still extremely useful
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by willmarch 4mo ago
I totally agree with your reading/impressions of this essay. I normally really like Chiang‘s writings so the complete disregard for the possibility of unknown complex emergent properties in large neural networks and the stunning lack o
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Measuring the Self-Reported Impact of Early-2026 AI on Tech Worker Productivity(metr.org)
3 points by willmarch 5mo ago|1 comments
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by willmarch 5mo ago
A survey of 349 technical workers (including 87 software engineers, 71 researchers, 129 academics and PhD students, and 48 founders and managers) about their usage of AI tools.
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by willmarch 5mo ago
What evidence is there for humans having souls to support your "wisest default"? What would constitute "strong proof otherwise" in the case of machines? Wouldn't the wise position be that since there is no evidence
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by willmarch 8mo ago
How so?
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by willmarch 8mo ago
Are tokens not resources?
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by willmarch 8mo ago
They’re getting data from you which is quite valuable.
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by willmarch 8mo ago
How did they fall short?
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by willmarch 9mo ago
You can't vote away the Constitutional rights of other people. ICE is regularly violating the Constitution and being encouraged to do so by those in power. Unless multiple amendments were removed from the Constitution without anybody n
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by willmarch 9mo ago
You can’t vote to allow federal agents to violate the Constitution or natural rights, so let’s please stop with this type of sophistry
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by willmarch 9mo ago
Which part is incorrect?
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by willmarch 9mo ago
They most certainly are.
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by willmarch 9mo ago
Appeasement doesn’t work.
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by willmarch 9mo ago
You’re misrepresenting what the content policy says (making it appear to favor your position more strongly than it does), as I believe a political article that engages intellectual curiosity should not be flagged according to the spirit of
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by willmarch 9mo ago
Is it? I see a lot of democrats speaking out, but few republicans. What do you think makes the difference?
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by willmarch 9mo ago
Then why aren’t they speaking out against it?
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by willmarch 9mo ago
I believe that theory can be argued convincingly and tend to agree
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by willmarch 9mo ago
You’re mixing metrics and then calling the correction “pedantry.” Your own cited stat (“<9,000/month”) is Border Patrol apprehensions between ports of entry. CBS is explicit about that, and even gives the recent months: July ~4,600;

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